Firefox 7.0 is out

[zalbard]

Get it here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or.../releases/7.0/

They promised drastically improved memory management. So I got rid of MemoryFox add-on. Updated to 7.0. The result?
Every single time I open a tab with a new site, memory consumption goes up (by 50-100MB). I close it - and guess what? It goes down by 0-2MB. I ended up with FF7.0 taking 700MB of RAM with just one tab with XS opened.
Very disappointing so far.

Edit: memory usage seems to be going down with time. Takes over a minute to offload a single tab, though. Perhaps that's intended, I don't know. They should definitely accelerate the offloading. MemoryFox (whose creator particpated in FF7.0 [and higher] memory management improvements) still does that a lot faster (and better).

[HuffPCair]

Yeah I got rid of FF from the last update. Still liking Chrome.

[M.Beier]

Chrome is still easy to get 4GB+ usage ;-)
But FireFox is still poor next to chrome... but... Google has good staff, and alot of it... Hard to compete with.

[IFMU]

that's kinda funny imo... chrome always seems to suck up more memory for me.

[stevecs]

Yeah, and here I am just /downgrading/ to 3.6.20 portable as I'm fed up with FF and it's direction and need all my privacy plugins to work correctly. This was a real successful business decision on their part with stupid upgrades.

[Bobsama]

Aaah yeah not playing this game again. I had enough of memory-hog problems with FF4--it's amazing that they've still not fixed it (reportedly) in FF7.

[LexDiamonds]

Ie ftw...

[mattkosem]

Seems fine to me. Basically just FF6 with some changes under the hood.

--Matt

[eBoy0]

Switching to Chrome as we speak, FF eats up so much of my memory, and since I did the most recent update I've been getting page redirects like crazy! I used to like FF too.

[Solus Corvus]

Meanwhile I'm running 9.0a1 with 24 tabs and 7 addons and I'm at 258 meg memory usage. I don't know why people even bother with the release versions.

Edit: With 131 tabs open it's at 619 meg.

[IFMU]

how the hell are you only using 256megs of memory? i don't even think i get that with the default tab opening on install.........

[M.Beier]

Meanwhile I'm running 9.0a1 with 24 tabs and 7 addons and I'm at 258 meg memory usage. I don't know why people even bother with the release versions.

Edit: With 131 tabs open it's at 619 meg.

Chrome;
1380MB, 30 tabs, splitted on 3 windows, 6 add-ons..
I dont think the consumption is unreasonable.... Cosnidering I have opened and closed tabs alot... (Screening the market for accomodation in the city of which I study)..

Total system usage;
4.3/8GB, FireFox, and my average use, wont work unfortuantely.

[Solus Corvus]

how the hell are you only using 256megs of memory? i don't even think i get that with the default tab opening on install.........

With 9.0a1?

Chrome;
1380MB, 30 tabs, splitted on 3 windows, 6 add-ons..
I dont think the consumption is unreasonable.... Cosnidering I have opened and closed tabs alot... (Screening the market for accomodation in the city of which I study)..

Total system usage;
4.3/8GB, FireFox, and my average use, wont work unfortuantely.

Frankly, Ive never cared one bit about memory usage, as long as it's not permanently leaking. I have way more ram than it ever has used. I don't really see what the big deal is.

[zanzabar]

im seeing 125MB and 9MB for the plug in container with taco running.


why would this make any1 change to chrome, not only is chrome slower, it id thefts, dose not meet HTML5 base standards, and is webkit based with a bunch of exploits (but dont tell google as they dont have bugs until affter they are fixed)

[kaktus1907]

my favourite addons still dont work with 6 and they realesed 7
im going back to 5

[FischOderAal]

Yeah I got rid of FF from the last update. Still liking Chrome.

Been using Chrome before FF went 4.0. Still using Chrome.

Wasn't memory consumption that made me change. FF was slow as hell and a lot of times pages wouldn't render until I restarted FF. Chrome solved all thathat.

[Solus Corvus]

Meh, the current nightly 9.0a1 starts acting up at around 200 tabs and 955 megs usage. They've got to work on that, and the panorama thumbnail bug, right this instant! I demand better from my free browser!

[Sparky]

FF has been and still is acting normally as far as memory usage. I can think of ONE time in all the years of using firefox that I had it go nuts on memory.

Sometimes I think people load a bajillion addons then blame firefox for the issues

[IFMU]

With 9.0a1?

with any.

FF has been and still is acting normally as far as memory usage. I can think of ONE time in all the years of using firefox that I had it go nuts on memory.

Sometimes I think people load a bajillion addons then blame firefox for the issues

i've wondered which addons may cause memory leaks or just huge memory use. can't say for certain it's an add on or ff itself. but i'm constantly at 300meg plus, easy. i can go up over 1 - 1.5 gigs with something running flash.

[Solus Corvus]

with any.

I don't know what to say about that. All I'm running is the latest Nightly with Addblock Plus, FoxyProxy, Nightly Tester Tools, NoScript, TrackerBlock, Tab Mix Plus, and UserAgent RG, and an old config I've run for years that's mostly default.

Memory usage with 200 tabs.

[BababooeyHTJ]

I've been using Opera for quite a while now. I love it. I've never been impressed with Firefox. I just don't get what people see in it.

[Solus Corvus]

Frankly, I've never got what people see in Opera. Maybe a little more speed on slow machines and that's about it.

[eBoy0]

Any reason for why FF redirects 1/4 of my searches through google, while chrome or opera don't. No spyware or viruses.

[Frontl1ne]

Colour management.

Browsers without it make my eyes bleed

[BababooeyHTJ]

Frankly, I've never got what people see in Opera. Maybe a little more speed on slow machines and that's about it.

Its always been a lot more stable than Fire Fox for me. A lot more stable.